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In what looks to be the second such case involving immigration law and charges of theft of an undocumented immigrant’s lottery winnings, Guatemalan native Ramon Ortiz has filed a lawsuit against a co-worker accusing her of stealing his lottery winnings.

Ortiz, currently a resident of Hyattsville, MD, does not speak English, has no Social Security number and no documents to prove that he is legally allowed to stay and work in the United States. Ortiz apparently purchased a $20 scratch-off lottery ticket in Maryland a couple of years ago. This time, he hit the $1 million jackpot.

Unable to claim the winning payout of $450,000 without any identity proof, Ortiz says he asked a co-worker who is documented to collect the money for him. Ortiz alleges that this co-worker, whose identity has not been disclosed publicly, collected the winnings, but did not give him anything. All he got to show for it was a hat and a t-shirt.

The defendant’s lawyer claims the two parties had a confidential agreement and they will argue against the charges in court. Ortiz responded that there was no such agreement. He had planned to take the money and send it home to his children in Guatemala. Ortiz says he had done this once before with another co-worker after winning a $3,000 prize. Everything went off as planned that time.

There is also the question of what happens at the end of the court case, when he will likely be taken into ICE custody for deportation.

Ortiz’s case closely mirrors the case filed by Jose Antonio Cua-Toc in Atlanta, Georgia. Cua-Toc, also an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, bought a winning lottery and asked his boss to collect the half million dollars. His boss collected the money and kept it for himself.

Cua-Toc hired an immigration attorney and got a court to grant him the right to stay in the US to fight the lawsuit against his boss. The jury awarded him the $517,500 in winnings, plus another quarter million in legal expenses and punitive damages.

Did you know?Illegal aliens have First Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution.
In case after case of immigration law vs. constitutional rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided in favor of providing illegal aliens with First Amendment rights under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

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